Validity and normative data for thirty-second chair stand test in elderly community-dwelling Hong Kong Chinese
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Validity and normative data for thirty - second chair stand test inelderly community - dwelling
It is important to establish valid field measures of lower body strength in the elderly as well 2 as provide representative normative values that are culturally specific in order to help health professionals in the risk assessment of this group. A sample of 1038 elderly Hong 4 Kong Chinese undertook a 30 s chair stand test (30CST), with a sub-sample of 143 completing isometric measures of maxim...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Human Biology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1042-0533,1520-6300
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20503